SPRINGDALE -- Locals started a Marshallese language newspaper and radio station last year, both hoping to be go-to sources for information in that community. The two are like the eyes and ears of the ...

Marshallese youth in Celina are attending language classes, like this one in November, to preserve their Pacific Island culture. Michael Capelle has spent much of his life listening to the stories of ...

The community of Springdale that calls the Marshall Islands as their homeland will celebrate the Constitution Day of that country in the South Pacific this weekend. "It will be three days of games, a ...

“This one just got here in March. She wasn’t enrolled,” says Carlnis Jerry, lifting an eyebrow and nodding her head toward a third-grader who is speaking in Marshallese. It’s a Wednesday, and Viona ...

SPRINGDALE — The Marshallese migration to Northwest Arkansas can be traced to one man. In the late 1970s, John Moody left the island chain in the Pacific to attend college in eastern Oklahoma. Moody ...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas court officials are looking for Marshallese language interpreters because a lack of qualified interpreters has courts turning to out-of-state help over the phone or ...

SPRINGDALE — Marshallese have suffered half the deaths so far in Northwest Arkansas from covid-19 while making up no more than 3% of the region’s population, figures show. Fourteen of the 28 Northwest ...

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